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So, I still haven’t 100% nailed down what I’m doing for NaNoWriMo. What I do know is that I’m having fun with the world I’ve been building with my Flash Fiction. I’m definitely going to be using some of this material–not word-for-word because that’s cheating, but definitely for inspiration. I’m running out of time to figure out […]

I didn’t have a chance to write a Flash Fiction for 10/27. I had to work, and then I went to a friend’s house to play Ten Candles. It’s a fun horror story roleplay/improve game thingy where no one gets out alive. Anyway, by the time I got home for the night, I was exhausted, […]

I just finished this snippet just before midnight last night, but I got it done! So, I returned to that character, Leah, from the first FF. I am thinking about going further with some of the characters I’ve created through this exercise, perhaps bringing them all together somehow for the actual NaNo project? I’m not […]

So. Day 3 of this pre-NaNoWriMo warm-up. (Here’s Day 1 and Day 2). I want to clarify something before we get to what I wrote yesterday: It is not my intention to have all of these little vignettes just be the intros to pseudo-smut, okay? That’s just where my brain was at the time. I […]

So, yesterday, I shared my first pre-game flash fiction for NaNoWriMo 2018. As I mentioned, my novel this year is likely to be urban fantasy. Now, I read a lot of urban fantasy, but I don’t write much of it. So, this warm-up exercise is helping me experiment with some of the elements of the genre. What […]

It is October 24th. National Novel Writing Month is approaching very, very fast. I’m not ready, not really. I’m pretty sure I want to run with an urban fantasy vibe, but I’m not sure about my protagonist and plot just yet. I’m what’s called a “plantser;” I attack NaNo with a vague plan, but not […]

I love Valentine’s Day; I always have since I was a little kid. It’s right up there with Halloween for me. I have these warm, happy memories and associations that just give me that sappy-as-fuck fuzzy feeling every year. I remember making a valentine for my parents in my kindergarten art class, cutting heart shapes […]